Rethinking Resistance and the Cultural Politics of Occupy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6307791 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kara Dellacioppa (California State University, Dominguez Hills), Kara Z Dellacioppa (California State University, Dominguez Hills), Sergio Reuben Soto (0000-0001-7216-8724, California State University, Dominguez Hills), Sergio Soto (California State University, Dominguez Hills), Alan Meyers (0000-0002-1138-0024), Alan D Meyer (0000-0002-6439-5326, California State University, Dominguez Hills), Alan Meyer (California State University, Dominguez Hills) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 403-416 |
| Publication date | 2013-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0739-3148 • E-ISSN: 1469-9931 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07393148.2013.813693 |
| OpenAlex | W1979043550 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This article examines the cultural politics of organizing in the Occupy LA movement. Utilizing ethnographic methods and the analysis of digital media sources produced by a variety of Occupy activists, this study focuses on how members of Occupy LA, in the post camp eviction period, made efforts to infuse a new kind of class politics among members of the newly and structurally dispossessed in the Los Angeles area. It focuses mainly on their efforts to build bridges among a variety of community based social movements during specific actions such as May Day 2012 and their efforts to ally themselves with organizations fighting the gentrification of Downtown Los Angeles and Skid Row in particular. Utilizing the theoretical lens of David Harvey’s notion of “accumulation by dispossession” it concludes that Occupy LA has helped to open up new opportunities for rethinking the concept of “class consciousness” and its relationship to the structural dispossession of black and Latino communities. It also concludes that while this new politics is tentative and fragile, it has also opened up a creativity in thinking through the practical organizational issues of dealing with organizing across lines of race, class, and gender
Class consciousness · Contentious politics · Creative class · Creativity · Downtown · Economic growth · Eviction · Gentrification · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Social movement · Sociology · Urban politics · Variety (cybernetics · Critical Theory and Political Philosophy · Gender Studies · History · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Political theory and Gramsci
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2015 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |